Heron Foods/Farmfoods Freezer Shops -spot any good buys?

mcculloch29

Haven't been in my local Heron for a week or two, but there was some gorgeous Quark at three for a quid for 200g when I was last in. Only drawback was, it wasn't British, Aldi do a British one, which is a bit ironic.

The pastrami and other cold meats were typically 2 for £2. The pastrami is always a bit bitty but a fraction of the price elsewhere and a lovely flavour.
I got lucky with the XSell pizzas last time, thin crust meat feast, my favourite. These are two for £1. I usually make home made tortilla pizzas but these are cheap enough to make adding some of your own toppings economically viable, although it wasn't necessary with the meat feast ones as the toppings were more than generous.

mcculloch29

Was in my local Heron today, as well as the usual stuff, this was new:
Light Philadelphia Spread with Mediterranean Tomatoes 170g 75p
907g Smoked Gammon Pieces 89p
Champagne Magnum ice creams 3 pack 2 for £1.50
Volvic Sparkling Drinks 920ml 4 for £1
Ritz Rosemary and Olive Oil 2 for £1
Terry's All Gold Milk/Dark 190g £1.49
XSell Mini Chicken Breast Fillets (500g?) £1
Country Life Salted Butter 500g £1.49
Flora Light 250g 59p, 500g £1

One to avoid. Findus Cottage Pie BOGOF £1.39. They looked underweight, mine had approx 3 large tablespoons of potato/mince, had it for a ding meal as I was going out 10 minutes later. Wish I hadn't bothered.

mcculloch29

Spotted in my local Heron in County Durham:

Thorntons Fruit Crumbles sweets (aka Edinburgh Rock) 168g 49p

Haribo Starmix and Tangfastic boxes 59p

Xsell Luxury Fish Cakes, inc smoked haddock, 600g £1.25

Xsell Giant Pizzas - thin and crispy - £1 each

Xsell Mini Pizzas 4 for £1

Optiwell Yogurt Drinks inc Peach & Apricot 300ml 4 for £1

Jacobs High Bake Water Biscuits 4 for £1

Jacobs Poppy and Sesame Crackers 4 for £1

Rubicon Guava juice 1.5 litres 69p

Weightwatchers Banoffee Desserts (frozen) 162g 3 for £1

Carte D'Or Festive Frozen Dessert Raspberry (serves 8-10 ) 99p

Ben and Jerry Frozen Greek Yogurt 500ml 2 for £1.50

Muller Light Layers Dessert Choc & Caramel 4 pack 89p

Muller Vitality Yogurt (Fruit) 110 g 19p

Aero Hazelnut & Choc Chilled Dessert 4 for 69p

Vimto NAS had 33% free, 1 litre (?) for £1

Plus all the usual suspects of low cost cheese, cold meats, spreads, etc

Greying_Pilgrim

Popped into h3ron f00ds today and spotted - in the chiller cabinet at the front of the store, so as far as I know, it is one of their 'This week's specials' - Savera brand paneer (225g) for 69p. Retails for double that in other supermercados. BB date 17/7/16.

I forsee alot of saag paneer in my future



Greying X

mcculloch29

Managed to get along to my local Heron and I was delighted to find Greying Pilgrim's Paneer for 69p.

Along with

Frozen:

Smoked Haddock and Cheese Fish Cakes, Xsell 600g £1.25

TMA Cocktail Sausages / Piri Piri Chicken Wings 200g 59p

HB Icecream Gingerbread Sandwich 4 for £1

Canadian prawns 200g £2.75

Chilled
Muller Yogurts Rio 4 pack £1.09

Bacon offcuts now 900g for £1.00

200g Pastrami 99p

President Creme de Brie 125g £1.00

GD Plain Green Olives 110g 59p (2 for £1)

Galbarne Mascarpone 250g 89p

Activia Natural Yogurt 500g 75p

Seriously Strong Smokey Cheddar Spreadable 125g £1.00

One to avoid imo
Kelkin Natural Banana Oat Bites 5 packs, boxed for 39p
Not a bargain, as they taste like little flat squares of banana flavoured sawdust. Marketed for children's lunchboxes, don't be surprised if they come home uneaten. Birds will eat them.

System

Dorset cereals really nutty muesli. 99p for 560g box. Everywhere else, but Waitrose, it's £3.50 each.

maman

ScarletMarble wrote: »

Dorset cereals really nutty muesli. 99p for 560g box. Everywhere else, but Waitrose, it's £3.50 each.

Is that Farmfoods or Heron scarlet?
We only have a Farmfoods near us and I find the best buy there is 2 x 400g Allinsons Wholemeal for £1. Hovis 400g is 79p even in Aldi!

System

maman wrote: »

Is that Farmfoods or Heron scarlet?
We only have a Farmfoods near us and I find the best buy there is 2 x 400g Allinsons Wholemeal for £1. Hovis 400g is 79p even in Aldi!

Sorry,

Heron

tessie_bear

i love heron...been in today and got more than i could really carry i got;
3 for a quid choc animal puds
8 for a quid belvita biscuits
2 for a quid cook choc passtries
marmite crisps 20p a bag
mug shots 3 for a quid
super noods 3 for a quid
muller light 4 for a quid

all really cheap i thought if naughty

Greying_Pilgrim

Two spots today in H3ron F00ds;

- President Petit Brie (the round one in a wooden box) 500g size for only £1.49!

- Magnum icecreams x 8 - either 'Classic' or 'Mania' (2 x double caramel, 2 x classic, 2 x white choc and 2 x almond) an absolute steal at £2.49! Making them 31p each

A box of 'Mania' may have slipped into my trolley :whistle:

Enjoy

Greying X